I like what David Beaulieu, landscape and garden writer, has to say about the modern American obsession with lawns: “…our desire to impose our will on nature would seem to be the predominant factor behind the hegemony of the lawn.” And “…the lawn is meant to showcase the diligence of the person who owns it, not the plants themselves.” Because grass is, well, boring.
Today, 58 million Americans spend approximately $30 billion a year to maintain more than 23 million acres of lawn.
The lawns in the United States consume around 270 billion gallons of water a week.
Lawns use ten times as many chemicals per acre as industrial farmland. U.S. homeowners apply some 78 million pounds of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides to the lawns each year.
Wow. There are so many good reasons not to have a 'putting green' lawn.
